Abstract
Behavior is one of the important factors in health problems. Efforts to improve health behavior in a community can include increasing public awareness and independence in the accuracy of self-medicating. The accuracy that needs to be considered includes appropriate symptoms, indications, dosage, route of administration, alert for side effects and follow-up. Gastritis is an inflammation of the mucosal tissue in the stomach which is characterized by pain in the pit of the stomach. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of knowledge and attitudes on the appropriate self-medication behavior of gastritis medication in Kauman Village, Srengat District, Blitar Regency. This was quantitative research with a descriptive observational approach. A questionnaire was used to collect the data which were analyzed using the Chi-square test. According to the findings, knowledge significantly affected the self-medication behavior (p = 0.015), as did attitudes (p < 0.001).
 Keywords: self-medication, gastritis medicine, health behavior
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